6,035 on housing wait list: Needy families endure years of waiting

12:15 PM,
May 8, 2012

Written by

Florence Stair
Pacific Daily News

The number of households waiting on the list for public housing has reached 1,760 and 4,275 were on the waiting list for Section 8 as of yesterday, according to the Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority.

Arlene Perolino, 50, said she has been on the Section 8 program for two years, but prior to that she was on the waiting list for about the same time. She was at the GHURA office yesterday to add on her dependent Marlan Hadley, 2, who she is raising. Perolino is the guardian of the 2-year-old, whose parents are from the Federated States of Micronesia.